Jim Camp’s Ten Favorite Books

1. You Can’t Win by Jack Black
Here’s a book that was way ahead of its time, and right now, it’s my all-time favorite. Next week, I’ll have another new favorite…in fact, probably by next week I’ll reread this list and wonder what in the world I was thinking.

3. Rock Salt and Glissandos by Steve Fisher
The best book you’re never going to hear about, much less read. And the best book of prison literature pulled off by an American. Big statement, but it’s the truth.

4. Jesus’ Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
For my money, the best book on the drug experience since Naked Lunch.

5. Semina (entire run of 9), Wallace Berman, editor
If little mags count…and I am assuming so, then how about an entire run? A magazine you couldn’t buy? It just showed up ion your mailbox?! From an editor that was also one of the greatest — and underrated — artists of his time? Art is Love is God.

6. Sniffing Keyholes by Harold Norse
Jack Micheline called it “the greatest piece of erotica ever written by an America.” I agree.